Author: calm mama
the evolution of cocktail conversation
It wasn’t so long ago that I was wildly happy to hold forth on the many virtues, natures, shades, moods, of poo. Now, if you hadn’t already noticed, my favorite topic is sleep. Deep sleep, shallow sleep, rolling sleep, stationary…
new things
Yesterday, we let him try an organic strawberry popsicle. Is that bad? Just a lick. Or two. We figured the icy coldness would feel good on his gums. Of course I worried about food allergies after, but his throat didn’t…
what goes up…
It’s 5:42 a.m. Should I be blogging now? Should Scott be building playsets? Should Jonah be swinging in his swing and chastising the circling jungle creatures overhead? No / I guess — if he wants to / According to the…
bliss days
Three good days slid by with me not blogging about them. There were naps, maybe not perfect, but naps. There was a night in the middle when he woke up seemingly every hour, but that wasn’t last night, so it’s…
shhhhhh… he’s napping
Well, the let’s sit up and nurse in the night experiment revealed that in fact, yes, I get more sleep if I don’t do that. Nap nursing, here I come back. Not only can the boy nurse on one boob…
sleep deconstructed
We had some good days, way back when. 1-1/2 hour naps. Some good nights. 5 hour stretches with only one or two little wakes for nursing thereafter. It could be me. Especially during the Hawaii trip, I got in the…
traveling with baby: kauai, days seven and eight
How did one week go by so fast? Day seven was hazy. Baby hazy. The boy went on one hour nursing jags in the morning, interrupted by a nap and a mega-poop-tacular, which altogether kept us from leaving the condo…